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SPECIFICATION forming/ part of Letters Patent No. 617,759, dated January 17, 1899. Application tiled January 6, 1896. Serial No. 574,498. (No model.)

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.Be it known that I, MICHA'EL MILLAN-E, engineer, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, v and a resident of No. 10 Rogers street, Richmond', in the British Colony of Victoria, have invented a certain new and useful lmprovementin Binder-Harvestei-s, of which the following is a specification.

rlhis invention of improvements in binderharvesters consists, mainly, in an endless rake shape combined con-veyer and elevator which I employ forcon veying the grain Vover the platform and for elevating and leaving it.

in position .readyfor the binder mechanism.

It also consists of a suitable slotted platform or table to admit of the use of the rakes and of the gears and devices for supporting p the endless rake and for imparting the requilsite action to its teeth.

By the use of myinvention canvas conveyers and elevators are entire-ly dispensed with.

In the accompanying drawings similar letters of reference will indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a perspective viewof as much of the harvester as is necessary to exhibit my invention, the back part of the frame vbeing removed in order to show the chain belt of the elevator and its supporting and controlling gears. Fig. 2 is a transverse section through the platform, and Fig. 3 a detail sectional View of the upper part of the endless rake-elevator and its gears shown in a position reverse to Fig. ll.

taken at right angles to the part D2.

1 A is the platform or table, formed of a'num- Y ber of thin plates secured at their lower. ends to a transverse bar A', and which is in4 turn fastened by bolts A2 to the end plate D of the frame. The upper ends A3 of plates A are secured, as shown,to the plateA projecting inward from the end plate D2.

' either of the hindermost bars A, its purpose being to retard the motion of thehead ends of the cut crop while traveling thereon and su cause the crop to be carried parallel with the ralres.

Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional View B are the endless chain belts--oue at each side of the platformframel-'and the links of said chains carry at regular intervals bearings B to su pport the journals or pintles of trans- 5 5 verse bars B2, which carry the tinesor teeth B3 oliv the combined conveyer and elevator. The chain belts are supported and driven attheir upper parts Ab v sprockets B4, while at the bend in the platform or table the chain 6o passes under guide or idle sheaves B'Sand B6, while the near ends of the chain belts pass over the tumblers B7, supported at each end of the transverse spindle B8, carried by the adj usting-eyebolts B2 which are attached to 65 aforesaid end plate D of the frame. v

B10 is the wheelon the spindle of sprockets B4 of a pair of bevel-wheels worked from vertical-.spindle B, the lower end of which is; furnished with bevel-wheel B12, driven by al-7o pinion on the horizontal shaft B13, and which latter usually imparts, motion to the knifebar. I may here point out that although I show this method of imparting motion to the elevator I do not desire to confine myself'to it. 75

C are bars-one at each side of the platform .and forming paths upon which thechains B and the tine or tooth bars B2 travel-said bars C having a rabbeted or depressed surface, as shown at C", to allow the tine-bars to fall or 8o `cant backward in'orderthat the elevatorteeth while ascendingfrom thehorizontal around the curve will .lie 'at' about a radial' `position therewith.

.C2 is a path-plate for the chains and tine- 85 plates when traveling downward under the binder-table. and 02a ledge, between the edge of which and the path-plate .C2 a grooveis formed to receive thechain B.

Each of the tine-plates B2 has ai short proL 9o 'right angles with the chain, then again lower roo down the tongue t on plate B2 contacts with .the heel or stop c', which turns thebar B2 fur'- sprockets, as just described, being clearlyv shownv in Fig. 3. The teeth then travel down to and under the platform while lying parallel with the chain, they being retained in such position while under the platform by the end teeth bearing on 'the path-plate D', and

immediately the plates B2 pass over the tumbler-rollers B7 they ascend-to the position indicatedy by dotted lines (marked B3 in Fig. l) and pass through the grooves A4 to the erect position drawn in fulllines in such ligure, and are then'in readiness to convey and elevate the grain or corn.

Ds is a sweep or path-plate from back plate D2 tothe under plate D.

D4 is a cheek-plate at fore end of platform, and E a bar secured to the latter, and stayed therefrom by the bar F', and itis upon bar E,

' chain and travel along the under path-plate that the seat is usually supported. Y F are curved finger-bars springing from bar E to a position jus'tclear ofthe top curved surface of the plates A, the purpose of the finger-bars F being to press lightly on the grain or corn while being'conveyed overthe curve and delivered to the birder mechanism. VHaving now described myinvention, what I claim as new,and desire to secure by'Letters Fatent, is A' In a harvester-binder, a combined conveyor and elevator comprising a table A partly horizontal and partly inclined provided with several slots A4 running along their Whole length, the lower en d of said table being secured to a transverse bar A' held in position by bolts .A2 and its rounded. upper end secured toa plate projecting inward from the .end frame-plate D2 of the frame `While the bend atfoot of incline of said tableis strengthcned 4by' several ribs A5, the lguide or 4path bars C, one` under each outer edge of table, said guide-bars beingpartlyhogizontal and lpartly inclined'and having a depression C in them atfoot ofv incline' to allow'the tinebars B3- to take a radial position while passing over the curve, the chain path-plate C2, thenledge C'forming a groove for the chain., the contact edge c2 of plate D?, the end contacte of path-plateC2 to ,y partially cant the fines, and the heel or stop c to further cant them and cause them toglie parallel with the D',` and the endless chain carrying the rows of tines or teeth, substantially as described. ln witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, in presence of ltwo witnesses, this 7th day of November, 1895. l t

' MICHAEL MILLANE. Witnesses:

D. R. BoDYcoMn, BEDLINGroN Bomrcoran. 

